Patricia Kopta meandered through northern Puerto Rico before she was taken as a person ‘in need’ to an adult care home in 1999
A Pennsylvania woman who went missing more than 30 years ago in a case that stumped authorities who later declared her legally dead has been found living in a nursing home in Puerto Rico.
By last year, a social worker at the home had enough information to alert authorities back home about the now-83-year-old woman. A DNA test has confirmed her identity, Kohlhepp said. But before she began preaching, Kopta was a straight-A student who became a model and dance instructor. After graduating high school, she worked in finance at a Pittsburgh plate glass company and would attend ballroom dancing events weekly, according to her family.“She just loved the ocean, the beach, the warm sunshine,” Smith told the AP.
Kopta, now 86, recalled how they met near a river in Pittsburgh where he had a boat. He gave her and her friends a ride and fell in love. In 1972, they married. “I went through a lot,” said Bob Kopta, a retired truck driver. “Every time they’d find a body somewhere , `Is it Patricia? Is it Patricia?”'
“It’s a sad thing, but it’s a relief off my mind,” her husband said. “When your wife goes missing, you’re a suspect.”
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